3.2.0

Display HTML content

I have an xml document with a node that contains HTML such as this:
<description>&lt;B&gt;Hello&lt;B&gt; World</description>

When I feed this XML to the grid, the content is correctly displayed and the word "World" is in bold which is great. Of course, this is only a very simplistic example, in reality, the description contains elaborate HTML which may or may not be XHTML compliant and which may sometimes be extremely long.

I have observed four problems:
1) sometimes the browser (I am only testing with IE) will crash
2) sometimes the content of some rows will move one pixel up or down when I hover my mouse over the row.
3) tooltips are not good at displaying HTML, they will display the "raw" HTML including the "<" and ">" symbols.
4) tooltips do no like certain combination of characters and will truncate the text if they encounter certain combinations.

I am guessing that issue #1 is caused by the amount of HTML in one node and/or the total size of the XML. I have not been able to prove what the cause of this issue is but I know that if I remove the "description" node from the input XML, everything is fine.

Issue number two is probably caused by a conflict between some HTML in the "description" and CSS in the grid but once again I haven't been able to pinpoint the exact source. However I do know that this weird behavior goes away when I remove the "description" column from the grid.

Issues 3 and 4 appear to be limitations with tooltips that I must live with.

Anyway, I was just curious to hear if anybody else has seen these issues and if they found a solution. I am currently considering attempting to remove all HTML tags from the source. Please let mek now if anybody has comments of suggestions.
Jeremie
October 25,
just got the <B> tags showing. What I'd like to see is an html editor that collapses tags like xml. This would pin point nesting component html page objects. Easier editting.
MattHolck@hotmail.com
October 26,
Jeremie,

you may try to use Active.Templates.Item instead of the default cell template (Active.Templates.Text) though I am not sure where the actual problem is.

As for the tooltips I just saw this piece of code today:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/archive/default.asp?url=/archive/en-us/samples/internet/behaviors/library/tooltips/default.asp - I did not use it myself, but the demo page seem to work :-) There is also another popular tooltip library (overLIB):
http://www.bosrup.com/web/overlib/
Alex (ActiveWidgets)
October 26,

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